30 November

On 30 November 1806 the 18-gun brig-sloop HMS Wolverine, under the command of Commander Francis Augustus Collier, fired on a British merchant vessel engaged in lawful trade.

1803 - HMShips Bellerophon and Hercule engaged the French during their evacuation of San Domingo. The French vessels Cerf, Clorinde, Semillante and Vertu were captured.

1808 - Cochrane's defence of Fort Trinidad during the French siege of Rosas, defending against general Pino's 5th Division of Reille's army.

1811 - HMS Rover captured the French privateer Compte reginaud (the former British Vincejo) in the South West Approaches 9approx. 250 miles SW of the Scillies)

1816 (tech) - the first trials of syphon-fitted water tanks for the storage of water in ships, replacing casks (which were henceforth reserved for emergency water supplies and spirits)

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The naval Battle of Dungeness took place on 30 November 1652 (10 December Gregorian calendar), during the First Anglo-Dutch War near the cape of Dungeness in Kent.

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